KM Freeman

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The Niagara Event Coming Soon!

Everyone wants a Niagara Event, and hers rewrites the rules.

Chapter 1 available FREE here

I am pleased to announce the upcoming release of The Niagara Event August 11th in paperback, ebook, and Kindle Unlimited!

I will be selling copies at Killer Nashville this year and will have a launch party on August 15th.

It's taken me four years to get here and I'm absolutely thrilled. I could go on and on about how tough it was and how great my support system is, but at the end of the day, it's an amazing book. The first chapter is available on my site free.

Please join me in reading all about the adventures of the bright-eyed Lisa, skeptical Brooke, effervescent Suzette, and ambitious Milo. There's many ways to get ahead in a world full of abnormal abilities, but the first step is acquiring your Niagara Event.

July 1, 2026

Being a Panelist at Killer Nashville

It was another Killer year at Killer Nashville--a writing conference that takes place in my own back yard. This year I focused more on craft and building community than giving my work to editors and agents. I already know where a lot of my issues lie.

This year was also different in that I was a panelist for "Using AI Ethically to your Benefits." The topic was hot and juicy! We had a panelist who was a retired lawyer on the panel too. The best stories come from conflict and it was a bit spicy.

On the spectrum of "Never touch the evil that is AI" to "It's my best friend" I was definitely leaning toward friendship bracelets, but I was about the only one. There was another creative who encouraged the use of OpenAI since it so far has been shown to have sourced its training materials ethically.

Aug 30, 2025

Dreaded Topic of AI: As an Author

I wonder if people thought photography would render painters useless. Why bother with hand created images when you could simply take a color photograph? But photography expanded "imagery" into a more versatile tool allowing for photo IDs to be quick and cheap and crime scene details to be simple to document. One could say photography became something separate from artistry. It did, however, also make a mark in the creative world becoming its own medium beside acrylic, charcoal, and other methods of art. It enhanced art without replacing art and was also a useful tool. I think of AI for authors in the same way.

Jul 21, 2025

Dreaded Topic of AI: An Introduction

AI is all the rage, and it's turning into quite the sore subject, especially among authors. Is it really your work if you used AI to write it? What can it actually do versus all the hype? As someone who has worked in the technology industry trying to market AI's true value to the business, and advocate for its shortcomings so the analysts aren't stuck with impossible tasks, I have opinions about it. As an author, I also have opinions, so...let's go! This week we'll talk AI in general, and next time we'll talk about it through an author's lens.

First of all, people throw around the term AI like they throw around "robots"--it is a very broad term. Imagine someone calling your dishwasher a "robot." Would that be true, exactly? Or if they called your Tesla a "robot?" That's many times what we run into when people say something is "powered by AI." Exactly what do you mean when you say "AI?"

Jun 10, 2025

Writing for Scientists

Science fiction has tricky rules. You're making up science or imagining what it could be capable of by pulling the information out of thin air. The audience understands that it is fiction. But if you don't explain enough then it doesn't sound like science.

So you do your research and understand the where the math ends and the make-believe begins. Now your editor is asking "how" and "why" the make believe does what it does and you just want to say, "You got me! It's all pretend! I made it up!" But science fiction isn't about proving your story is plausible to physicists who know it is not. Writing is ensuring that the underlying logic is consistent. But how deep does that logic need to go?

Feb 14, 2025

Food Genius of Soy

When I learned my baby I was nursing had a soy allergy, I thought it would be easy to cut soy out of my diet. I'd just reduce the quantity of Pad thai I ate, no problem. That was before I understood the food science genius that is soy.

Soy is everywhere. If you doubt this, pull out your snack drawer and start reading ingredients. Just skip to the end where the allergens will be listed in bold. Love Oreos? Contains soy. Like eating anything at Sonic? Soy. It's all because it's just such an amazing ingredient.

Dec 3, 2024

Efficiency Expert Heroes: The Gilbreths

Sometimes I am discouraged and think, "How can I possibly add 'author' to my identity when it is already full with technology professional, mother, wife, and the small tasks and titles that draw on my attention like grocery shopping and remembering to call my mother?"

We only have a finite quantity of time and energy to spend, so how should we optimize it and keep all the plates spinning? The gold standard in this space isn't a blogger or influencer, but rather the husband and wife team of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.

Nov 2, 2024

What Makes Autumn Leaves So Brilliant?

In Tennessee, you have to take a trip to Chattanooga or the Smoky Mountains when the leaves change. The roads will reveal sweeping vistas of untouched mountains swirling in reds and yellows, purples and greens. If you want to kick it up a notch, then travel the “Tail of the Dragon,” a road that kisses the Smoky Mountains as it winds through 318 curves in an eleven mile stretch.

If you can time it right with the changing leaves, the drive is so beautiful, you’ll realize you’ve never actually seen the color yellow properly before. I love to go there in the fall, but the window of beauty is quite tight and the majesty ebbs and flows from year to year. Why is that? How do I predict that? Why isn’t my backyard that amazing?

Sept 30, 2024

Killer Nashville

Iterative Methodologies, Killer Nashville, and Yachts

I spent this past weekend (and the tail end of last week) at a writing conference in Nashville, TN. Killer Nashville may lean towards murder mystery, thriller, and cozy genres, but at its core, the conference is about authors getting together and supporting each other. It also socializes and breaks down stigmas between authors, aspiring authors, editors, and agents. It was a great chance to get out of the normal 9-5 grind and focus on writing and its opportunities.

Aug 29, 2024

Photo by me of a pistol shrimp the group caught.

The Pistol Shrimp

The best vacations are the ones where you not only collect interesting memories, you collect interesting facts. So when we did a girls weekend at the beach, we also did a boat tour that came with its own naturalist and I learned that the world was more amazing than I realized. Read more

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Sept 8, 2023

Website Launched!

This website was created September 2, 2023. This will be where the latest blog posts will live before being archived into the blog archive pages either under "the craft" or "the life."

Sept 2, 2023

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